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Florida Literature During the Civil Rights Movement[edit]

While combating racism abroad during WWII, America seemed to have lacked awareness of the racial problems they were having back home. Post Jim Crow yet discrimination and racism was still very prevalent.

While Florida native authors like Marjory Stoneman Douglas had the luxury writing wildlife and trying to bring attention to “save the Everglades” here in Florida, black Floridians were fighting to have access to quality education.

Since black people were being denied admissions to schools while trying to receive a standard education during the civil rights era, Black Floridians resorted to creating their own schools. Mary McLeod Bethune founded the school Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in the year 1904 in Daytona-Beach, Florida.

Since many of Florida’s Black writers were too engulfed in their fights for equality and fairness to recollect on the era they were experiencing, not many books about civil rights movement in Florida were actually written until many years later. Books like “The Pain and The Promise by Glenda “ written by Alice Rabby and “Beyond Integration: The Black Freedom Struggle in Escambia County, Florida, 1960-1980” written by J. Michael Butler really captures the contemporary moment surrounding Florida during the civil rights movement.